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For those making use of the EROFS read-only file-system designed with mobile/embedded devices and containers in mind, EROFS-UTILS 1.8 is now available as an important update for these user-space utilities...

EROFS-UTILS 1.8 Brings Multi-Threaded Compression, Intel IAA Acceleration, Initial Zstd  Phoronix

The Linux kernel itself can already boot quite fast but with a simple one-line patch another ~0.035 seconds will be able to be shaved off the boot time...

Linux Will Be Able To Boot ~0.035 Seconds Faster With One Line Kernel Patch  Phoronix

For those still running an AMD Ryzen 3000 series "Zen 2" desktop it really ought to be time to upgrade soon for better performance and power efficiency given the Zen 5 performance benchmarks thus far, but for those still planning to use the Ryzen 3000 series for some time, a quirk/workaround is on the way for enabling more of those older platforms to work with the AMD P-State Linux driver...

Ryzen 3000 Series Gain Workaround For AMD P-State Linux Driver  Phoronix

New Double-Extortion Ransomware Attacking Linux Machines  CybersecurityNews

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In the previous parts of the Awk command series, we looked at reading input mostly from files, but what if

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Following decisions like exploring -O3 package builds for Ubuntu Linux, another newly-announced change by Canonical I must applaud is their decision to commit to shipping the very latest upstream kernel code at release time...

Canonical Moves To Shipping Very Latest Upstream Kernel Code For Ubuntu Releases  Phoronix

OpenBLAS 0.3.28 made it out today as the open-source optimized BLAS library that caters to a wide range of processors spanning various architectures. With this OpenBLAS 0.3.28 release are yet more optimizations and new CPU optimized paths...

3-in-1 Linux Convertible Laptop Unveiled by TUXEDO  OMG! Ubuntu!

Behind the Linux SLUBStick vulnerability  Digital Journal

Cosmic DE previews the future of Linux in Pop!_OS 24.04 alpha with Fedora, Serpent OS, and Arch support at launch  Notebookcheck.net

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Performance With DDR5-8000 Using Corsair Vengeance 2x16GB DDR5-8000 DIMMs Review  Phoronix

With the new AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors the AGESA supports up to DDR5-8000 memory. With yesterday's testing of the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X review all of the tests were done at DDR5-6000 in matching with the Ryzen 7000 series and Intel Core 13th/14th Gen configurations. In this article today is an initial look at the DDR5-8000 performance with the AMD Ryzen 7 9700X while using Corsair Vengeance 2 x 16GB DDR5-8000 DIMMs (Corsair CMH32GX5M2X8000C36).

An 18-year-old browser exploit leaves MacBooks and Linux laptops vulnerable — but a fix is coming  Laptop Mag

Tuxedo InfinityFlex 14 3-in-1 is a Linux laptop, tablet and portable monitor  Liliputing

Sober is a new way to play Roblox on Linux from the Vinegar team  GamingOnLinux

System76 desktop environment COSMIC alpha now available to try  GamingOnLinux